CUP OF COMFORT: My So-Called Dinner
- Imogene Johnson
- Apr 22, 2016
- 1 min read
“Laughter can conceal a heavy heart.”
Proverbs 14:13
• I put my best foot forward and fell right over it. We’d moved to a small rural town where we had neither relatives nor friends, but the church members there were friendly, and some quickly invited us for dinner. I felt obliged to return the favor, so I mailed an invitation and went shopping. At the market, I asked the meat-counter attendant how to prepare the brisket I’d selected. Then I clipped a recipe for a luscious-looking cake from the local paper. Reckoning day came, however—the day of brisket tougher than jerky, and a cake recipe that had apparently omitted the crucial word “self-rising.” After my so-called dinner, I wanted to cry. But my new friend told of her own dinner fiasco—which somehow managed to top mine. Isn’t friendship wonderful? And isn’t laughter an excellent cushion if you must fall on your face? To maintain your sanity, maintain a sense of the ridiculous.
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